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...blunt, five-page decision issued yesterday, Superior Court Judge Lewis Goldberg decreed the novel "obscene, indecent, and impure." The Judge's decision came six weeks after the hearings in which the lawyer for Henry Miller and Grove Press, Mr. Ephraim London, had tried to show that the book was not obscene...
...hearings, Goldberg had refused to rule on the constitutionality of the Massachusetts statute. In yesterday's decision, he returned to this point: "It should be here noted that this Court is not passing on the question whether literary censorship is or is not desirable. The Court has nothing to do with that issue. It does not have the power to legislate. Its function is to apply the laws enacted by the Legislature...
...this case, Goldberg said, has been determined by both the U.S. Supreme Court and the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court. In Roth v. United States, the Supreme Court held that obscenity is outside the protection of free speech and free press; and it had set a test for obscenity: "whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest...
...have carefully and painstakingly read the book from cover to cover," Judge Goldberg concluded. "Applying the law applicable to the book. I am irresistibly led to the conclusion that the book is obscene, indecent, and impure...
...Goldberg, endorsed by the CCA two years ago, but running as an independent in this election, told the CRIMSON last night that he "will vote with the CCA when it supports measures for good government in Cambridge." He stressed, however, that he "will follow his own dictates in all matters, and will not be controlled by any organization...